1736 Canting Dictionary / S / SLAM [thing]
a Trick; also also a Game intirely lost, without getting one on that Side.
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Entry taken from 1736 Canting Dictionary, by Nathan Bailey.
Slam in the 1811 Vulgar Tongue
Also see examples in Canting Songs and Slang Rhymes collected by John S. Farmer (1896).